Stevie Nicks shares unearthed pre-fame letter sent to her parents: “It will pay off in the end”

To mark the re-release of ‘Buckingham Nicks’, Stevie Nicks has shared an unearthed letter sent to her parents before the peak of her fame.

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The singer-songwriter shared the handwritten note with fans on Instagram on Monday (September 22) following the recent reissue of the 1973 record, saying: “I wanted to share this letter I wrote to my family while Lindsey and I were making ‘Buckingham Nicks’. My mom saved it and it’s been in a drawer for over 50 years.”

In the letter, penned on stationery from California’s Sound City Studios, Nicks began her letter by joking about “getting very tired of sitting around listening to 12 hours of music per day.”

Addressing her mother, father, and brother Chris, she said: “I know it will pay off in the end,” adding that when she one day was sitting in her “small but luxurious Beverly Hills home”, it would “all be worth it.”

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After checking her family were doing OK, she moved onto her imminent 25th birthday, declaring they “should set aside the entire month of May to celebrate the fact that I am now 1 quarter of a century old,” and playfully called it a landmark milestone that warranted a “gala celebration.”

Then returning to how the recording process was going, she told her family: “I certainly do miss you all, and wish you could be here to hear some of this stuff.”

Addressing her father and Chris, she noted that “rock and roll tune” ‘Don’t Let Me Down Again’ – with “the fancy guitar work” they both liked – was “almost finished”.

“Lindsey may go down in history as one of “greats” in guitar playing,” she insisted. “It really is quite amazing.” Rounding off, she asked them to “hold good thoughts about this thing.”

While the initial release of ‘Buckingham Nicks’ wasn’t a great commercial success, it was the precursor to Mick Fleetwood asking the then couple to join Fleetwood Mac.

The ‘Buckingham Nicks’ reissue will seemingly be the closest fans will get to a Fleetwood Mac reunion, given Nicks has said that without the late Christine McVie, “there is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together.”

However, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham have teamed up with Miley Cyrus on her new single ‘Secrets’.

Elsewhere, Stevie Nicks has said she’s working on a new album, saying it was made up of “real stories, memories of mine, of fantastic men”.

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